In 3–5 complete sentences, thoroughly explain how the protagonist's cultural background affects his or her actions and choices in Daughter of Invention? Provide at least two specific details from the text to show how the protagonist's cultural background affects his or her actions and choices.

The protagonist's cultural background creates conflicts in between him and his daughters. His daughters wanted to get settled in American society and get assimilate in it, go to the malls, movies in bright daylight, but he and his wife wanted to hold their Dominican culture which creates the conflict between them. Both the parents was not good in accent language and not updating their lifestyle according to American society on the other hand their daughters were good in accent and writing and in identifying themselves according to new culture. When the narrator wrote the speech for her teachers day and read it to her family, her father did not like the speech. It was disrespectful according to him because he was not good in language, and he had no understanding of phrases this was also one of the main conflict between them due to their cultural background.  

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"the monkey's paw" is a rare story in that the theme is actually stated in the story. sgt. maj. morris tells the whites that the old fakir who put the spell on the paw said, "fate rules people's lives and those who interfere with fate do so to their sorrow." the message is a warning, but mr. white doesn't believe it. even though sgt. maj. morris makes it clear that he tried wishing with unfortunate results and he tries to throw the paw on the fire,   mr. white makes a wish for 200 pounds only to find that he receives the money when herbert dies in a factory accident. according to the fakir, then, because mr. white had wished for something he should not have had, his son lost his life.

the second wish that mrs. white encourages him to make is for herbert's return--one week after his death. when the strange knocking begins at the door during the windy night, mr. white panicks, believing that the previously dead but still mangled herbert could have walked home from the cemetary and is now at the door. because he fears what his wife will find if she opens the door, mr. white makes his third wish--for the noise to stop.

therefore, he uses his three wishes and to his sorrow, loses his son and disappoints his wife, who fervently believed that their son was at the door. she wanted him back, regardless of his condition.

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